When utilized properly ( parrying by deflecting the sword by striking the flat parts of the blade ), it was more than capable of defeating a katana.

When parrying with such a sword, unpleasant vibrations may be transmitted into the attacker's blade.

When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.

When a person has thoughtlessly or deliberately caused us pain or hardship it is not always easy to say, `` Just forget it ''.

When something unexpected happened, one always asked for water if one were a woman, brandy if one were a man.

When drilling all the way through a workpiece, always place a piece of scrap wood underneath.

When stacking wine on its side in a bin, care should always be taken to be sure there is no air bubble left next to the cork.

When looking at variations it needs to be kept in mind that different groups of people do not always sign one way and not the other, rather they prefer and use a particular form of a sign more often.

When a merger occurs, the larger hotel chain always acquires the smaller hotel chain.

When carried, the Ark was always wrapped in a veil, in skins and a blue cloth, and was carefully concealed, even from the eyes of the priests who carried it.

When preparing regional dishes, potatoes and corn or wheat are almost always used, including quinoa ( a cereal typically used in Incan cuisine ), peppers, squashes and tomatoes.

When the current through the device is reversed, the electrodes switch functions, so anode becomes cathode, while cathode becomes anode, as long as the reversed current is applied, with the exception of diodes where electrode naming is always based on the forward current direction.

When g oscillates near a, then it might happen that no matter how close one gets to a, there is always an even closer x such that g ( x ) equals g ( a ).

When it comes to naming, however, this principle is not always compatible with the traditional rank-based nomenclature.

When the appropriate conditions above are satisfied a system is said to be asymptotically stable: the variables of an asymptotically stable control system always decrease from their initial value and do not show permanent oscillations.

When Paul refers to Priscilla and Aquila, of the seven times Priscilla and Aquila are mentioned in the New Testament, the Apostle Paul always lists them together, suggesting that he viewed them as a ministry team and also a family unit.

When the plasma goes upward from the footpoints towards the loop top, as it always occurs during the initial phase of a compact flare, it is defined as chromospheric evaporation.

* Granularity: When a continuously variable analog value is represented in digital form there is always a decision as to the number of symbols to be assigned to that value.

Though attractive in many cases, a general-purpose DBMS is not always the optimal solution: When certain applications are pervasive with many operating instances, each with many users, a general-purpose DBMS may introduce unnecessary overhead and too large " footprint " ( too large amount of unnecessary, unutilized software code ).

When the exponent is zero, the result is always 1 ( e. g. is always rewritten to ).

When ephemeris time was first adopted, time scales were still based on astronomical observation, as they always had been.

When the slave has been set free, he has, in the passage of time, become indistinguishable from those who have always been free ...

When dialogue titles came to be always cut into a scene just after a character starts speaking, and then left with a cut to the character just before they finish speaking, then one had something that was effectively the equivalent of a present-day sound film.

When his eighty-year-old son died, the father mourned: “ I always told him he wouldn ’ t live long, poor boy.

When Charles asks why Fiona is not married, she confesses that she has always loved Charles since they first met years ago.

When applied to whiteware ceramics, vitreous means the material has an extremely low permeability to liquids, often but not always water, when determined by a specified test regime.

When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.

When improvements are recommended in working conditions -- such as lighting, rest rooms, eating facilities, air-conditioning -- do you try to set a measure of their effectiveness on productivity??

When driving rain or mist socked in one valley, Fogg would chandelle up and over to reverse course and try another one, ranging from the Ottauquechee up to Danville in search of safe passage through the mountain passes.

When the date would try to bid her good-night at the door, she would tell him, `` If you go home now, I'll scream ''.

When they are with a herd of females, males do not coerce them or try to restrict their movements as do some other antelopes.

: When forces that are hostile to socialism try to turn the development of some socialist country towards capitalism, it becomes not only a problem of the country concerned, but a common problem and concern of all socialist countries.

When metadata is not present in a distribution, the PAUSE's software will usually try to analyze the code in the distribution to look for the same information ; this is not necessarily very reliable.

When that daughter proves genetically undesirable, Mohiam kills her and returns to Harkonnen for a second try ; at this point he drugs and viciously rapes her.

When you try to cover a line by dropping open intervals on it, you always end up covering some points twice.

When the reporter asked her if she would be world champion one day, Judit answered, " I will try.

" When an elderly defendant told him that he would not be able to live to complete a five-year sentence, Landis scowled at him and asked, " Well, you can try, can't you?

When the manic behaviours have gone, long-term treatment then focuses on prophylactic treatment to try to stabilize the patient's mood, typically through a combination of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy.

When speed is important, Python programmers tend to try using a JIT compiler such as Psyco or using an alternative language implementation such as PyPy.

When night came, they would deny her warm clothes and a fire for her bedroom to try to keep her from studying, but after they left she would take out candles, wrap herself in quilts and do mathematics.

When said gadget went out of control, Urd used her angel to save Skuld, thus unlocking World Of Elegance, and also revealing the back story as to why Urd couldn't initially call her and why she had Scarlet's egg in the first place-Urd wanted to " try again " since she had believed that she had sealed her angel away forever at its own birth.

When a reporter informed him he was no Teddy Roosevelt, Taft replied that his main goal was to " try to accomplish just as much without any noise ".

When 37 try to escape the island, they are burned alive at the stake.

When using contracts, a supplier should not try to verify that the contract conditions are satisfied ; the general idea is that code should " fail hard ", with contract verification being the safety net.

When approaching Rome ( where Tarquin was heading to try his luck in politics after unsuccessful attempts in his native Tarquinii ), an eagle swooped down, removed his hat, flew screaming in circles, replaced the hat on his head and flew away.

When three Japanese fishermen, among them Otokichi, were shipwrecked on the Olympic Peninsula in 1834, McLoughlin, envisioning an opportunity to use them to open trade with Japan, sent the trio to London on the Eagle to try to convince the Crown of his plan.

When Gardner was seven years old, the family decided to try their luck in a larger city, Newport News, Virginia, where Mollie Gardner found work managing a boarding house for the city's many shipworkers.

When the species came under threat, numerous campaigns were launched to try to educate farmers and encourage them to conserve cheetahs.

When lecturing, teachers should try to look at the student as much as possible and limit unnecessary noise in the classroom.

* When asked why he seemed so incredibly cheerful all the time: " Well, old bean, life is really so bloody awful that I feel it ’ s my absolute duty to be chirpy and try and make everybody else happy too.